Annotated Games Page

Here you will find annotated games of the masters as well as instruction on how to annotate your own games.

How To Annotate:

Vladimir Zak is one of the Soviet Union's most experienced trainers. Here is his recommendations on how to analyze your games from his book "Improve Your Chess Results."

Take a look at IM Jacob Aagaard's 8 steps to analysis your game: taken from the title chapters his book: "Excelling at Positional Chess" for a guide to help you with your analysis.

NM & Coach Dan Heisman continues to write excellent articles on his Novice Nook column at the Chess Cafe website. His newest article "Improving Analysis Skills" is no exception.

How to use a computer to help you analyze your chess game by Steve Lopez part one, part two & part three as found on Sid Pickard's chesscentral.com website.

Annotated Master Games:

McDonnell A.-De La Bourdonnais L., London 1834

Anderssen A. - Kieseritzky L., London 1851 (The Immortal game)

Anderssen A. - Dufresne J., London 1852 (The Evergreen game)

Louis Paulsen - Paul Morphy, USA 1857 (An incredible queen sacrifice)

Paul Morphy - Duke of Brunswick & Count Isouard, Paris 1858 (This is the famous Italian Opera House game)

Janowski-Alapin Barmen 1905 (QGD Tartakower variation)

Richard Réti - Savielly Tartakower, Vienna 1910 (The Sucker Punch)

Alexander Alkehine-Oscar Tenner, Cologne, Germany 1911 (A King's Gambit Declined)

Aron Nimzowitsch - Semyon Alapin, Carlsbad 1911 (French Defense) Annotations by Nimzowitsch are so marked "-A.N." All others are mine except where notated. One interesting fact is that Nimzowitsch and Alapin shared the same birthday, November 7th, just 30 years apart.

Lasker,Emanuel - Marshall,Frank James, St Petersburg, 1914

J.R.Capablanca - A.Schroeder, New York 1916

Edgar Colle - John J. O'Hanlon, Nice 1930

DeFirmian-Nakamura, 2005 US Championship, San Diego, California

Carlsen-Kamsky 2005 FIDE World Knockout Championship How does a 15yr old boy upset a GM? By beating him of course. Here you can see Brian Wall's analysis of  Magnus (who turned 15 the first day of the tournament), Carlson's  game against world class player GM Gata Kamsky. Brian Wall is a Life Master who lives in Colorado. He has a chess website and runs several yahoo groups which can be joined at  http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/BrianWallChess/join

Hikaru Nakamura-Vladimir Epishin, Gilbralta  2007